Too many people – even people of faith themselves – work on the assumption that a little bit of religion (producing moderates and liberals) is a good thing, but a lot of religion (producing extremists and fundamentalists) is a bad thing.

But it isn’t about a little or a lot: it’s about good religion versus bad religion.

In the top ten commandments, before murder, adultery, theft and perjury; ahead of covetous envy, and family duty; before the wise advice to take a day to unwind, comes this commandment, greater than them all: never but never presume the authority to speak in the name of God.

So much harm and evil has been done by taking that liberty, making that presumption, to claim to speak on God’s behalf.

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain”.

This familiar commandment is not about putting ‘OMGosh’ instead of ‘OMG’.

It is about presuming to know the mind of God, and presuming to dictate to others on that basis.

My two Muslim students tell me that in Islam it is explicitly forbidden to think of God as a person.

For some, God may still be a warrier king, bent on vengeance against the unbelievers.

But at least some mosques are teaching even ten-year-olds that whilst God may be called ‘he’ for convenience, and given person-like attributes such as justice or mercy, it is entirely wrong to think of ‘God’ as a person: the concept is far more subtle than that.